A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
Watch the official The Countryman and the Cinematograph 1901 trailer in HD below.
Először találkoznak vidéken a vetítőgéppel Trailer
The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures Trailer
United Kingdom 01 October 1901
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The Countryman and the Cinematograph (AKA: The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures) is a 1901 British short silent comedy film directed by ...
The only surviving footage of British innovator Paul's short film about a countryman reacting to the Lumière Brothers' "Arrival of a Train at the Station".
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1901 Robert W. Paul, Paul's Animatograph Works.
